Kimari Yasake

Yasake Kimari (キマリ) Codename 028, is a Japanese FANLOID created by Claudia Castellanos and sponsored by the Hispanic Facebook fan-page "Miku Hatsune Vocaloid", and was initially become a Vocaloid Fanmade singer in May 2013. She used to be part of the "Vocaself" project and there are currently demos of her beta on Youtube. Her beta voice is portrayed on the VOCALOID3 engine but final fanmade product is set to be part of the VOCALOID4 generation on January 2015.

Her voice is provided by the VOCALOID Anon ( a Japanese VOCALOID developed and distributed by  Bplats, Inc., under the  YAMAHA Corporation for the VOCALOID3 engine)

Concept
Kimari's concept was that of a sweet and nice teenage girl according to Claudia Castellanos, Kimare was originally going to be a UTAUloid  prior to the change of concept plans for the character.

Etymology

Her name is taken from the word  Yasake  meaning "Key" and  Kimari  translated as "Water" according to what her creator has stated. Claudia has stated that both words aren't really meant to be meaningful, they are only two random words that suddenly come to her mind and she instanly related with keys and water for unknow reasons.

Appearance Kimari's originally design is drastically different from the first version. Since 2011, she has been seen with different outfits. Nowdays, she has a pink hair. Is a short pink hair with two tails. Her hair reaches the area of ​​her body where her heart is located. She has a stray hair at the top of her head, nose length bangs. Her eyes are green  and there is a hint of makeup. On her left upper arm are painted red numbers "028" which is her series number. Her top is pink in color, the style is midriff with no notable feminine attributes. The rest of her attire is blue with black and a little of pink. She wears detached sleeves, and a short skirt similar to a school skirt. Her headset microphone points downward away from her mouth. Kimari's early design was a recolor from the UTAUloid Kasane Teto. Later was change into a Hatsune Miku recolor, the third design is more similar to her actual design but the hair used to look like a cotton candy.

Her personal assign item is a magical Dragon which is also her mascot.

Personality
She is the most nice, cute, kind and honest girl you could ever meet. She likes to meet new people from all around the world using the Internet. For unknown reasons she's linked with a Yandere personality. But there's not more information about it. Kimari seems to be the kind of girl from town who enjoys technology and videogames. She do her best on all the songs she cover, even if she fail in the attempt (That's noticeable on her early demonstrations) BUT she do not give up and continue till the end waiting for the better (Which is notable in recent demonstrations where she can sing a lot better compared to her early beginnings in the music). She is a good representation of the new girls in this community. She has so much heart, so much dry and fire. She want people to know that you can follow your dreams have a party while do it! She also want people to knows that isn't about how many times you had been in the bottom.. isn't about how many times you get keep down, is all about how many times you continue and get back up. At the end of 2014 she seems to be matured as a virtual musician and is ready for her big official debut on the 2015 with a lot more professionalism.

Biography
Kimari was born in Maracay, Venezuela. She later moved to Japan to start working on her fanmade dream. Kimari was created to pass through the sound of her voice a mixture of love, heart and music. In her early years everybody compared her with Kasane Teto due to the fact that she looked exactly like her but with different colours. In some point of 2012 she gets into a new outfit that make her look similar to Hatsune Miku. She later join to the project "Vocaself" which used to be a project for fans to represent themself as Vocaloids or in a Vocaloid style by drawings. She participate on some fanarts with her personal friends between the final quater of 2012 and 2013 (at this point she was focus on the idea to make her an Utauloid but nothing happen) In early 2014 was planned to record her first voicebank for the UTAU software. However the voicebank never was recorded.

During the summer of 2014 it was decided that she will get a voice trought the VOCALOID3 engine. The selection of the possible voices who could match Kimari's necessities for an own voice needed to be a soft, cute and calm voice. Anon was the vocal selected and trought a configuration of her voice, she bring Kimari to the beginning of her carreer.

On 2015 s he's planned to be a support fanmade character in VOCALOID4. She will be working on future covers and collaborations with the community.

History
10/05/2014 :  First demo is released via Facebook and Youtube. A cover song of the original  ロミオとシンデレラ (Romeo and Cinderella)  by Doriko-P feat. Hatsune Miku.

15/05/2014: Second demo released via Facebook and Youtube. A cover song of the original CiRCuS MoNSTeR by Circus-P feat. Megurine Luka.

18/05/2014:  Third demo released via Facebook and Youtube. A cover song of the original  恋は戦争 (Love is War)  by Ryo-P feat. Hatsune Miku.

12/08/2014: Promotional speedpaint video for Kimari is released via Youtube.

26/10/2014: Four demo released via Youtube. A cover song of the original パンダヒーロー (Panda Hero) by Hachi-P feat. Gumi Megpoid.

???: The final and fifth demo is set to be released on christmas. A cover song for Merry☆S-E-X'Mas (Len ver.) by Giga-P.

Trivia

 * She used to be part of the "Vocaself" project.


 * She has her own dragon.
 * Kimari's best friends are Max Kuroi y Lucy dendougui.


 * She can barely sing in English and Korean.


 * Although all her demos were made in V3, she is set to be part of V4 more than anything.